What about a sort whose run time is based not just on the size of the array, but on the size of the values? I call it IterSort; and it's horrifying. public static int[] iterSort(int[] unsorted) { int[] result = new int[unsorted.length]; int count = 0; for(int i = Integer.MIN_VALUE; true; i++) { for(...

OTC live wallpaper update: (snip) Update is pushed and should be available in an hour or so.[/spoiler] The OTC live wallpaper has been on my phone since you announced it here. However, I installed LineageOS and was too naive to think I'd just reinstall it from the store... It seems the live wallpap...

To all y'all interested in decoding Beanish: I have left a longish comment on the mysterious Beanish-blog. It is waiting for moderation. Does anyone know who that guy is? (S)He must be a professional in the field of linguistics or one of the most dedicated and knowledgeable amateurs I have ever see...

What you say is correct. However your quote did include ...to be used in lieu of Copyright So, I guess you didn't mean that precisely. I think we are both just looking at the phrase "in lieu of" differently. What I meant is that the license is used in place of Copyright, because you no lo...

Charlie, I don't know how you have interpreted my post as suggesting that one could apply a Creative Commons license to something for which they do not hold the Copyright. Once a work is released under a license such as Creative Commons, it is used in lieu of Copyright. You have waived some of your ...

And recall that a CC license is not "in lieu of" copyright. In fact it depends on the owner holding copyright and the strength of copyright laws to enforce the terms. The same is true for GPL work. So even if Bieber steambottle doesn't license his works, the "exceptions" (whatev...

If I take his art and change one pixel from FF to FE does that make it mine to license how I please? Yes! If I change one pixel, I can ask that no one will copy my new creation with that one pixel, and to copyright my change (theoretically. Usually the change should be significant, but even one pix...

My first contribution to the coloring in thing ( 800 ) http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/xkcd-time/images/d/d6/800color.png ETA: full size original The best part about this is that it is a photograph (or mostly anyway, as far as I can tell). A lot of talent and effort goes into all of these, but a ...

ETA: ⁴! Got it, thanks. I assume that the list of frames is now built into the app, and you're no longer using my .csv? Well, yes and no. I'm still using your .csv, but now it is in the app package and doesn't need to be downloaded from your server. ;) Yeah, that's what I meant. htt...

I'm not a user of this (sorry, I don't have a smartphone or other device that could use it), but it seems like an option to display a random frame would be wanted as well. Yes that is a good idea, and something I had planned to add but it slipped my mind! I will add it if people are still actually ...

Well folks, for what it's worth, I have pushed out an update to the OTC Live wallpaper to make it relevant again following Friday's event that shall not be named. It should become available in the next couple of hours. Changes: v1.10 - 2013-07-29 - End of Time update - Added ability to loop through ...

This whole adventure has reinforced my ire at the fact that creative digital media is not taken more seriously. The OTC is, in my view, a groundbreaking piece of art and uses a medium in a new and previously unexplored manner to bring an experience to the observer that is quite unique among art form...

There has been talk of GLR's minions watching the OTT, for mustard and such. Does anyone have evidence from outside that he actually uses minions other than his own sweet self? I always assumed xkcd was a very personal project, not a team (other than a web team, perhaps). Anybody know anything? Not...

AG ONG ? http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/time/b211576d18fa397b1f2af3d794fbfdc52e8b7db6189bbe0d7e05b11fdf8ef93e.png I suppose they pulled themselves over to that tree! It looks more like they pulled the tree over to them. Edit: Actually after Blitzgirl's comparison, it looks like a bit of both.

Someone previously suggested that this might be an epic, in which case this might not be the climax, but the first major challenge for the protagonists. While I hope that is the case, I really can't think of where you can go to up the ante after "homes being destroyed by the flooding of the Med...

You know these hill people must be some truly nasty pieces of work. They have clearly had direct and unpleasant dealings with the Cueganites based on Megan's whispered "They don't like us". Their lifestyle appears to incorporate wantonly dumping their waste into a river which flows into an...

I am looking forward to the big reveal at the end of Time, when it is made known that Blitzgirl has been GLR all along. With an elaborately constructed, but fake, online persona to throw us off the scent. I bet this isn't even a new prediction, but my internal storage is a low lower than the current...

I've been thinking--do they say anything outside of the types of things that would be said on Simple Wikipedia, or in Up Goer Five ? That might explain their occasionally odd phrasings (if the language being Unglish wasn't the real explanation). I was about to code something up to check this, using...

A (non-Beanish) linguist muses: Ever since Cueball said "eventually" in the Château d'If, Megball's language seems to have made great, multi-syllabic strides. However, as I did way back in the sandcastle days, I still find them in the Uncanny Valley of language. Considering the impending ...

ONG 6 SPOILER You've linked time.png, which will update and act as a spoiler for blitzers. It would be great if you could change it to the hash.png instead. But by quoting his message you also have a time.png in yours now. :/ In a spoiler tag, with warning text below it. However, you're correct and...

How long can GLR keep this up? The OTC is rapidly approaching 3000 newpix; in contrast, the regular xkcd strip is now at 1240, after 8 years. At this point, 'Time' comprises over 70% of Munro's lifetime output of panels. I realize that there's a lot of recycling of backgrounds, and the drawing styl...

Good catch! We seem to have missed that completely, even though it's clearly visible with the naked eye. It was there originally and hasn't been fixed . How are you guys seeing anything on that frame? There was mention of mustard on windows inside the castle, but I just see white. Do I need to buy ...

Edit to prepend "it is the BOP plant" Wow; from frame to frame, they don't appear to be running, but when comparing these newpix to the corresponding newpix on the way *up* the mountain, they're going something like an order of magnitude faster. It's quite possible that they are only goin...